On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Sébastien MARQUE wrote:
Hi all,I've just noticed that at least these jsbsim aircrafts create a file named "initfile.xml", inside the directory I use to launch FG.
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that is not so disturbing as long as I don't have an important file already named initfile.xml in the directory I use to launch FG :p, but it is surprising to see that FG can write everywhere. When I try to launch FG from /etc (with no write permissions) I've got the following message in terminal: "Could not open and/or write the state to the initial conditions file: initfile.xml", and FG continues gently. What is the purpose of this file?
Hi,It is a useless file generated by JSBSim when FlightGear is reset. (Of course it is not always useless - it is useful for some applications of JSBSim/standalone). The functionality just carried over into FlightGear quite some time ago.
I'm using FG/CVS freshly compiled.
Are you sure? Since the latest (recent) JSBSim update in FlightGear initfile.xml generation should be disabled in FlightGear. (I committed that update to JSBSim.cxx myself :) I (thankfully) don't get initfile.xml:s here anymore and my source tree seems to match what's in FlightGear/CVS.
Cheers, Anders -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Gidenstam WWW: http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/
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